{
  "draft": "draft-ietf-wts-shttp-06",
  "doc_id": "RFC2660",
  "title": "The Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol",
  "authors": [
    "E. Rescorla",
    "A. Schiffman"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "45",
  "pub_status": "EXPERIMENTAL",
  "status": "HISTORIC",
  "source": "Web Transaction Security",
  "abstract": "This memo describes a syntax for securing messages sent using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which forms the basis for the World Wide Web. Secure HTTP (S-HTTP) provides independently applicable security services for transaction confidentiality, authenticity/integrity and non-repudiability of origin.\n\n The protocol emphasizes maximum flexibility in choice of key management mechanisms, security policies and cryptographic algorithms by supporting option negotiation between parties for each transaction.",
  "pub_date": "August 1999",
  "keywords": [
    "WWW",
    "world wide web",
    "http",
    "authentication"
  ],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC2660",
  "errata_url": null
}